To tap Moscow for a credit line
Yanukovych may even be able to tap Moscow for a credit line to dull the pain of a predicted 37 billion budget shortfall.
Does "tap" mean "beg" or "ask"?
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Tinanam
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tap Function: transitive verb 1 : to let out or cause to flow by piercing or by drawing a plug from the containing vessel <tap wine from a cask> 2 a : to pierce so as to let out or draw off a fluid <tap maple trees> b : to draw out , from, or upon < tap new sources of revenue > <the story taps powerful emotions> 3 : to cut in on (as a telephone or radio signal) to get information 4 : to form an internal ***** thread in by means of a tap 5 : to get money from as a loan or gift 6 : to connect (a street gas or water main) with a local supply ____________ to tap is not to ask or beg, but to obtain. Read the definitions above and you will see that money is likened metaphorically to a fluid in this particular meaning. So Yanukovych may be able to obtain money from Moscow in a way that can be compared to piercing a container of liquid in order to make the liquid flow out of the container.
- tap Function: transitive verb 1 : to let out or cause to flow by piercing or by drawing a plug from the containing vessel <tap wine from a cask> 2 a : to pierce so as to let out or draw off a fluid <tap maple trees> b : to draw out , from, or upon < tap new sources of revenue > <the story taps powerful emotions> 3 : to cut in on (as a telephone or radio signal) to get information 4 : to form an internal ***** thread in by means of a tap 5 : to get money from as a loan or gift 6 : to connect (a street gas or water main) with a local supply ____________ to tap is not to ask or beg, but to obtain.
- Read the definitions above and you will see that money is likened metaphorically to a fluid in this particular meaning.
- So Yanukovych may be able to obtain money from Moscow in a way that can be compared to piercing a container of liquid in order to make the liquid flow out of the container.
- If Yanukovych just talks to the people in Moscow the right way, he may be able to get the money (credit) to flow like water!
- CJ
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Function: transitive verb
1 : to let out or cause to flow by piercing or by drawing a plug from the containing vessel <tap wine from a cask>
2 a : to pierce so as to let out or draw off a fluid <tap maple trees> b : to draw out, from, or upon <tap new sources of revenue> <the story taps powerful emotions>
3 : to cut in on (as a
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